Flow disturbances generated by feeding and swimming zooplankton.

@article{Kirboe2014FlowDG,
title={Flow disturbances generated by feeding and swimming zooplankton.},
author={Thomas Ki\orboe and Houshuo Jiang and Rodrigo Javier Gonçalves and Lasse Tor Nielsen and Navish Wadhwa},
journal={Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America},
year={2014},
volume={111 32},
pages={11738-43}
}

Interactions between planktonic organisms, such as detection of prey, predators, and mates, are often mediated by fluid signals. Consequently, many plankton predators perceive their prey from the fluid disturbances that it generates when it feeds and swims. Zooplankton should therefore seek to minimize the fluid disturbance that they produce. By means of particle image velocimetry, we describe the fluid disturbances produced by feeding and swimming in zooplankton with diverse propulsion… CONTINUE READING